!!!Pettenbach

Pettenbach, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Kirchdorf an 
der Krems, alt. 486 m, pop. 4,297, area 54.66 km%%sup 2/%, 
on the eastern slope of Almtal valley. - 2 small power plants 
(private); production of welding machines, wood processing, gravel 
plant, haulage companies, summer tourism. - Documented mention in 777; 
late Gothic parish church (1484), hall church with 3 naves and Baroque 
frescoes by M. Auhuber (1725), Madonna statue in side altar (1620); 
parish house from 1652. On Kaibling mountain, Peace Cross and fallen 
"1000-year-old" oak tree (9 m in circumference). Every 
year, on the first Sunday in November, custom of riding on horseback 
(Leonhardiritt) from Pettenbach to the former pilgrimage church at 
Heiligenleithen (built between 1431-1499).


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